Cardinal Müller Critiques the FSSPX
- There is no doubt that the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X agrees with the Catholic faith in substance (except regarding the Second Vatican Council, which the Fraternity wrongly interprets as a break with tradition).
- If they reject the Second Vatican Council wholly or in part, they contradict themselves since they rightly admit that the Council did not define any new dogma binding on all Catholics.
Heresies Have Entered the Church
- Even if other ecclesial communities claim to be Catholic because they largely agree with the Church's faith, they are not Catholic if they do not formally recognize the Pope as the supreme authority and maintain sacramental and canonical unity with him.
- Not only the Priestly Fraternity but also many Catholics complain that, under the pretext of church renewal through self-secularization, serious doctrinal uncertainties and even heresies have entered the church.
Rejection of the “State of Emergency” Justification
- No orthodox Catholic can appeal to conscience to withdraw from the Pope’s formal authority over the Church’s visible unity in order to establish an 'emergency church,' a position that mirrors Protestant arguments from the sixteenth century.
- Such a schismatic stance cannot justify itself by claiming a state of emergency, even for the salvation of many souls.
- Even someone who is unjustly excommunicated - as happened to St. Hildegard of Bingen - must accept it for the good of the Church without undermining unity through disobedience.
Cardinal Müller's "solution" for the FSSPX
- The only solution is for the Priestly Fraternity - bishops, priests, and laity - to recognize Pope Leo XIV as the legitimate pope in theory and in practice and submit to his teaching authority and primacy unconditionally.
- Then, a fair canonical solution could follow. For example, the Pope could grant their prelate ordinary jurisdiction directly under him, possibly without Curial mediation.
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